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This article is by Saj-Nicole Joni, chief executive of Cambridge International Group. The Right Fight, by Saj-Nicole Joni and Damon Beyer (HarperCollins, 2010), is available in book, e-book and audio formats. Read more from Saj-Nicole Joni here.
What would you do if your company was suddenly swept up in a media firestorm? Boom goes your great reputation. Look at the recent horrors at Penn State,
I asked Karen Schwartzman, the founder of Polaris Public Relations and a leading crisis management expert, to join me in a conversation about what every leader needs to know.
Saj-Nicole Joni: Let's assume you lead a solid, well-run, crisis-free organization where everything seems to be going smoothly. What should you be thinking about?
Karen Schwartzman: Even though it probably isn't in your job description, knowing how to lead in a media crisis is a crucial part of your job. The first thing to get right is to build what I call a well of good will in the communities in which your firm operates. When a crisis hits, you'll benefit from the relationships you've built with local officials, public safety officers, legislators, and thought leaders who won't pile on but will instead come to your defense, if they believe the situation is an aberration.
A culture of straight talk and honesty is important as well.
Absolutely. A leader can't avert a crisis in the first place if he or she is out of touch. Even a minor issue can blow up into a major public crisis in an opaque culture.
It's also important to have a crisis-management team in place, made up of people who understand that they will be first responders in the event of an unforeseen event. The team should include legal counsel, public relations, key members of senior leadership, and outside crisis-management counsel. The latter will provide perspective and objectivity, whereas many insiders will naturally want to close ranks to protect the organization and the people involved. The outsider's job is to get to the root of the issue, often by asking the toughest, even most embarrassing questions that an insider cannot readily ask.
I've often noticed that companies instinctively want to protect a person even if doing so adds to the risk to the organization. Many leaders feel conflicted in this area, because we feel sympathetic and loyal. Even if someone has done something seriously wrong, we don't want to throw them under the bus.
Of course. But as a top executive, your loyalty rests first with your organization. If a person has put your organization at risk because of their judgment and/or behavior, regardless of who they are, or how well liked they are, they still must be held accountable for the good of the organization. That's hard, but it's necessary, to demonstrate to outsiders that you are taking all appropriate steps to address the problem.
The 7-24 news cycle is voracious. I've been with chief executives and chairmen when the storm hit. Tweets are going off, names are being called, reporters are haranguing, people are gossiping. You feel that what is being said is so unfair, so untrue, that you cannot wait until tomorrow to respond, even if you don't yet know everything about what has happened. What do you do?
Leaders must resist the pressure to respond publicly before they know all the facts and the potential solutions. Managers must never rush to defend or make excuses for what seems to be indefensible. You may need to put something out quickly that asserts, "We are looking into this serious matter. We don't yet know the facts. We are working around the clock to get them and will make ourselves available to answer questions as quickly as possible." Remember that in most cases an organization will be judged not so much by the event as by the response to it.
Once you know the basic facts, what do you then?
Work with your crisis-management team to write a Q-and-A document that becomes your crisis bible. The Q-and-A contains all the known information about the problem, how it developed, what you're doing about it, and why the public should feel confident that it's never going to happen again. It contains the basis for what you say to employees, to customers, investors, and the press, and it ensures that all communications are accurate and consistent. It's a living document that keeps evolving until the problem is behind you.
How should a leader think about his or her own public behavior during a crisis?
I tell my clients to show calm and confidence. In most cases, the more boring they can make a situation, the better off they'll be. If you self-report your problem to regulators and customers, it's immediately less interesting to the media than it would be otherwise. That's why I recommend writing a letter, as quickly as you can, to some block of constituents, whether customers or board members, disclosing the problem and how you're handling it. Then share the letter with a reporter. The reporter is likely to conclude that you're operating in a transparent way. This takes the gotcha out of his story and demonstrates courage and confidence on your part.
So leaders have to have a very steady hand and thick skin. They have to be confident in their own judgment while looking at themselves critically. They have to be committed to action but flexible enough to change course if circumstances warrant it.
Right. My advice to leaders is to prepare now, get the best team around you, and if a crisis happens, act with great discipline and courage. In so doing, you will survive the onslaught, and often, in the wake of it, you will find your business and team stronger for it.


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Small and medium-sized enterprises are the fastest growing sections of our economy, but new graduates often lack the skills and confidence to flourish as entrepreneurs or innovative employees.
Now an innovative degree programme which puts running a real company at the heart of the learning experience is changing the face of business education in the UK.
Promoting resilience, self-reliance, innovation and ingenuity; putting students in charge of their own learning – that's the aim of Akatemia CIC, a not-for-profit company formed to bring a radical approach to entrepreneurship from its heartland in Finland into the UK. It's called Team Academy and it has a simple philosophy: Learning to work entails working to learn.
Train as a Team Academy coach
The sixth UK team coach training programme had its final session in December 2018 but a further opportunity to train as a Team Academy coach will begin in the first half of 2019 and two 'open' places are available for prospective coaches, for those interested in applying the methodology in either an academic or work environment. In the first instance please e-mail Alison Fletcher (see contacts page) for further details.
Film – Team Academy comes to the UK
Learning from their Finnish counterparts is taking UK academics to Jyväskylä to see for themselves the impressive results achieved by these methods (see film below). In 2013 student companies generated over 2.6 million euros in turnover, and within three years of graduation almost half of graduates are running their own businesses. Employment rates for new graduates are a healthy 91%.

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This cutie is only about 3 inches high but I have learnt a few more skills making this little owl.
I hope to make a much bigger owl to use as a cushion or a door stop.
I have other posts about my crochet makes on my blog if you wish to pop over
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Applications are now being accepted from youth aged 13-25 for the OneLove Mentorship Program 2014: Mental Health and Art Therapy.
The program, whose theme changes annually, is presented by ArtQuake, a Vancouver based youth-led, youth-driven non-profit focused on cultivating social change through art.
The 2014 OneLove Mentorship program provides up to 40 youth with the opportunity to explore mental health, stigmatization, and art therapy through artistic expression in four streams:
- Comic art
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Each stream is facilitated by an experienced artist who teaches artistic technique while offering safe and inclusive space for the youth to connect and heal.
Projects created during the program will be presented at ArtQuake's annual OneLove Festival in August 2014. The festival provides youth the platform to showcase their artistic expressions related to mental health and unites the community in dialogue about the various challenges related to mental health in Vancouver.
The mentorship program is open to youth aged 13-25. Applications are welcome from those with lived experience, those supporting loved ones with lived experience, and those who are passionate about exploring the topics further. Accessibility is important: those with specific needs that need to be met in order to participate should indicate this in your application. The program is free (only a deposit is required).
Application Deadline: April 21, 2014
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Beta Byte: GRUMBL
Beta Byte is a series underwritten by Cushman & Wakefield/NorthMarq for that early stage tech found somewhere between idea and traction.
What is the name of the company and/or product? Where is it found online?
GRUMBL – TheGreenHabit.com/GRUMBL
What problem does this solve?
There are $165Billion of food waste each year. 56% of this from the commercial sector. Food waste = Edible, safe, uneaten food… Better known as "excess food inventory." GRUMBL allows businesses to monetize on food waste while dually offering people insane deals.
What is the full launch/release date planned?
Earth Day 2015 (April 2015)
Who is on the team?
Founder and Head of Design, Holly Jade. TEDx speaker, former Apple and Yelp.
COO, Zach Damato, former founder of $3.5Mil food distribution company
(see for the team TheGreenHabit.com)
What is the specific technology or combination of technologies is used? Is there any IP?
We are developing a mobile application.
What is the size/scope of your market and how will you scale?
$92.4 Billion of commercial food waste in the US alone, each year. We are planning to start in the West/mid-western regions at grocery stores and partner with some of the largest food distributors.
What is your revenue model?
The app is free for consumers. Because we are literally capturing Billions of dollars in lost revenue, we have a service rate that is charged for business owners to post to GRUMBL
What is your greatest strength?
We are innovating technology into a an industry that's painfully conventional. We are allowing businesses to have added revenue streams and NEW foot traffic. We are a for good for profit, "discovery app." — People are starting to capture food waste but no one has yet successfully tapped into how to monetize on it.We're fortunate to have our app recognized by billionaire founder of AOL, Steve Case and were invited to present at his Rise of the Rest tour.
What is your biggest weakness?
Illustrating the real impact of GRUMBL; enlightening people for the severity of this issue with regards to food waste.
What is one resource you could use that would take this to the next level?
The leading users and businesses to take part in being subjects to the launch. We'll offer them captured revenue and accessibility to quality food at low cost; we just need their insight on how we can improve the experience of the app.
Is there anything else you would like to add?
We're accepting applications from business owners/leaders, especially in the food industry who would like to be on the founding business list. Please visit us on TheGreenHabit.com to learn more or just say hi.
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The Time Magazine headline, "Yo Decido; Why Latinos Will Pick the Next President," caused a stir in the Latino press. In this column, translated from La Tribuna Hispana, opinion-writer Lux Fer dismisses as empty flattery the idea of Latinos deciding major policy:
The Spanish-language media mavens in the United States – who love to shout from the rooftops any news which, supposedly, makes Hispanics stand out – are like neighborhood gossips at the news that the well-known magazine Time says on a recent cover that Hispanic voters will decide the presidential election. The headline: "Yo Decido."
The headline looks pretty and flattering, and in a certain sense it seems a recognition of the power of the vote. But as a good skeptic, I would take this headline with a large grain of salt because, if we take a look at the realities, the very same headline could read, "I Decide… That the Deportations Will Continue." Or, "I Decide… That They Can Keep On Reaching into Our Pockets to Pay the Banks' 'Penalties.'"
And this is not merely a word game or a joke, but simple reality. For example, in 2008 Hispanic voters decided, with their votes, against their will and without knowing what was really in the mind of the current principal tenant of the White House, that not only would the deportations of their fellow Latinos continue, but also that the number of deportations would break all records set by the previous government. So much for "hope." And further, that deportations would continue at the same rate – to the point that, if Obama is re-elected, by the end of Obama's second term in 2016, he will have deported one to two million more undocumented immigrants.
So, counselor, whom are we going to decide for this time?
The way things are, it is preferable to be kicked by a donkey than to be stomped on by an elephant.
So this business of "I decide" – to be more sincere than [Paraguay's] priest-president [Fernando] Lugo when he declared that yes, he had a few children here and there – is like giving us a few marijuana cookies so we could hallucinate and believe that we can make the difference in some presidential elections. But the reality – like the horrible reality Morpheus shows Neo in Matrix – is that they will simply use us to maintain the status quo, just like what happened in 2008. And the deportations are only one example out of so many that you could produce a soap opera called "Prometheus."
We could also say: "I Decide… that the Banks Can Keep Reaching into My Pockets." As we have written in our two previous columns, in spite of the disaster and fraud which has left us with millions of debtors (it makes no sense to call them homeowners because under the terms and conditions of the mortgages that allowed them to buy their houses they would be owners only in 30 to 40 years, if they make it that far; what they actually own is a monstrous debt, so the house is on loan, nothing more) after all this the banks are still doing just fine, while not a hair on Mr. President's head is out of place.
All this and more happens because the owners of the country are the 1 percent, and the elections at every level – from national to state and local – have become a kind of mini-buffet, where you get to choose one of the two dishes offered and nothing more. But worst of all is that from condiment down to the last grain of rice the two dishes are the same – that is to say, politics in service and obedience to the 1 percent.
Counselor, could it be that voting for Democrats or Republicans is the same thing?
So it is, my dear friend. The only difference is in how hard they'll kick you or how heavily they'll stomp you.
So it is that, to take up our thread again – the same as the banks when they send you the bill for your mortgage at the end of each month – the now famous "I Decide…" is another elaborate trick to make us believe that we live in a "democracy" and have more than one choice. In reality, though – something we don't realize – United States citizens vote just like the citizens of countries where there is one official party – like in the ex-Soviet Union, or the way it is now in China or Cuba.
And that is how the manipulation of the masses works. There's a flock of sheep who live in a world of hyper-reality in which they believe – as if it were the truth or the only reality – what they see on television or the Internet, what they hear on the radio, what they read in the newspapers or the large-circulation magazines, all of which, to close the circle, are owned by the same powerful people – read, the power of the 1 percent – who control the politicians and the elections.
People believe that they elect and that the politicians work for them. The last President who tried to do that was John F. Kennedy; he tried to eliminate the Federal Reserve (which is nothing but a private bankers' club that loans money to the government), and we know what happened to him. L. B. Johnson and Nixon went to war in Vietnam in order to consolidate the power of the military-industrial complex (which Eisenhower warned about, before J.F.K.). Carter tried to do something different, and he lasted only one term — no pain, no glory. Then came Reagan, whose administration began the deregulation of the banks, which was the genesis of the later economic disasters. Then Bush, who invaded Panama and made the first Gulf War. Then Clinton, under whose administrations the de-industrialization of the country accelerated. Followed by Bush the Younger, who sank the country even deeper with his invasions and occupations (to the immense benefit of the arms and security industries) and by giving Wall Street carte blanche to plunder the middle class. And now Obama, to recap in a few words, is no more than W. Bush Redux. So: who were all these presidents serving?
Well then, Counsellor, whom do we vote for?
To paraphrase old Uncle [José] Saramago in his "Ensayo Sobre la Lucidez" ["Seeing," in English] I ask: What would happen if in some election or other, the majority of the electorate opted to leave their ballots blank?


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Woodpeckers in Residency in Baba's Tree
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By Eric Turk
The Acorn Woodpecker (Melanerpes formicivorus) residency in Baba's Tree has much expanded! As of October 2013 there are four to five full-size nest holes, plus some tentative ones, all along the underside of one branch. Hopefully, they were used this past spring, 2014, for several broods.
In February 2013 I saw just one nest-hole there. It is possible that I just never noticed others, but I'm sure I would have looked for more after spotting one.
Here are some interesting Woodpecker facts:
Acorn Woodpeckers have a call that sounds almost like they are laughing. The sound is a loud "wack-a, wack-a."
The cartoonist Walter Lantz is believed to have patterned the laughing call of his cartoon character Woody Woodpecker on that of the Acorn Woodpecker, while patterning his appearance on that of the Pileated Woodpecker (Dryocopus pileatus) which has a prominent crest.
In some parts of their range (e.g., California), the Woodpeckers create granaries or "acorn trees" by drilling holes in dead trees, dead branches, telephone poles, and wooden buildings.
The woodpeckers then collect acorns and find or make a hole that is just the right size for the acorn. As acorns dry out, they are moved to smaller holes. Granary maintenance requires a significant amount of the bird's time.
You can find several such acorn-holes the woodpeckers have made in Baba's Tree. Also in the tall utility pole near the tractor shed. The holes have been emptied of acorns by now, August 2014, but expect them to be filled again as acorns ripen in late summer and fall.
The following photos show Woodpecker nests in Baba's Tree photographed by Eric Turk in October 2013. The Woodpeckers are stock photos.


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"Have you ever seen a giant donut on a motorbike? What about a giant beer bottle on a motorbike? Spiderman? A human unicorn? We did see all that in the course of a day, among with various other ridiculously fun looking antiheroes superheroes, on the misty slopes of the Jaïzkibel. Welcome to the Punk's Peak Sprint Race, another major highlight of Wheels and Waves."
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I am urging the release of €1.5 million in EU allocated immigrant integration funding, following a new ERSI report revealing that negative attitude to immigrants have trebled.
Alarmingly, the report revealed that over the last decade, the percentage of Irish nationals, who have negative attitudes towards immigrants, has jumped from 6 to 22 per cent. Meanwhile, migrant advocacy organisations are facing a financial cliff edge due to a ceasation of funding."
Approximately €1.5 million in funds allocated to Ireland by the EU for integration and refugee remains in the coffers of the Department of Justice- so I now call on Minister Shatter to instruct the Office for the Promotion of Migrant Integration (OPMI) to release the funds to the relevant NGOs – organisations who possess huge expertise in the areas of anti-racism, integration and community participation work.
The allocated funding is urgently needed by these organisations as a bridge to keep them afloat until the next round of EU funding- the Asylum & Migration fund (AMF)- is due in 2014. The benefits of a properly integrated society more than justify the costs involved.


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The May 2, 2008 episode of Ice Ribbon Aisuriho is a Professional wrestling event produced by Ice Ribbon, which took place on May 2, 2008 at Itigaya Ice Box in Tokyo, Japan.
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- Singles Match: Hamuko Hoshi vs. Haruna Akagi ended in a Time Limit Draw
- Tag Team Match: Emi Sakura & Masa Takanashi defeated Yuki Sato & Yuta Yoshikawa (10:52)
- Singles Match: Vanessa Kraven defeated Makoto (2:54)
- Tag Team Match: Mai Ichii & Riho defeated Tomoko Mori & Yasusato Nakajima (13:49)
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We've been asked by a lot of people what is the difference between The Opportunities Party (TOP) and the Greens. While the Greens may be close to TOP on some issues, it turns out there are quite a few stark differences. We've found 8 main ones.
1. Housing and Tax Reform
This is probably the biggest difference between TOP and any other party (including the Greens). While Labour and National bicker about how to build more houses, TOP is the only party talking about closing the $11b loophole that we have around property and other assets. Our Fair Tax Reform will close that entire loophole, ensure all assets are paying their fair share of tax, and recycle the revenue in reduced income tax. More money will go into businesses, more houses will be built, and 80% of people will be better off. TOP is the only party with a realistic plan to end speculation and restore housing affordability.
The Greens by contrast propose a capital gain tax, which excludes the family home. While this may be more politically palatable, this has been tried overseas and has failed to reign in either speculation or house prices. Capital gains taxes are also complex and harmful to growth. The Greens also want to up the top tax rate to 40%, already one third of our wealthiest people don't pay the top tax bracket, and it will just encourage even more people to use housing as a tax dodge.
2. Environmental Issues
We share basically the same goals with the Greens in this respect – we want clean rivers, a zero carbon/ fossil fuel free economy by 2050, and to protect our oceans. The main difference in policy here is over the how, rather than the what.
The Greens have a dogmatic opposition to using market-based mechanisms. TOP on the other hand, are interested in what works. The OECD has shown that market mechanisms are an important part of the mix if we want to improve the environment and the economy at the same time. Central to TOP's approach is making sure that Polluters Pay for the damage they do. In other words the Greens might deliver the same environmental outcomes (it is hard to tell given the lack of detail in their policy), but it is likely to come at a bigger cost in terms of economic output. As for climate change, based on their current policy of a $25 carbon tax, which is way below what is going to be required to achieve any meaningful emissions targets, the Greens have little chance of achieving their goal of a zero carbon economy.
3. Working with National
The Greens are committed to working with Labour to #changethegovt. TOP just wants policy change regardless of tribal politics. And the Greens are not prepared to work with National, which means that by voting for them, the environment is only represented in government half the time (or less). We don't think that the environment should be considered by government half the time – hence the need for a centrist environmental party that is prepared to work with either National or Labour.
As we have mentioned before the most worrying party from an environmental and progressive policy perspective at this election is not National, it is NZ First. At the moment either prospective government looks to be relying on Winston's support to govern. So far his plan to return us to the 1970s includes removing all policies that would improve water quality and climate, consigning our native birds to extinction and getting rid of the Youth Justice system. Let's be clear, for progressive voters, the major issue this election isn't #ChangeTheGovt it is #AnyoneButWinston. Right now the polls suggest the Greens are relying on working with Winston, which would be a total own goal.
4. Child Poverty & Super
TOP and the Greens both want to tackle child poverty. We are both committed to removing the work test for the In Work Tax Credit so that all low-income families receive that $72 per week.
We also both want to help new Mums, recognising that poverty is highest amongst families with young kids. However, the difference is in the scale of that help. The Greens are offering to ensure all newborns receive at least $200 per week for 10 weeks. TOP wants all families to thrive with children under 3 years of age to get $200 per week for that entire period, no questions asked. This is part of our commitment to rolling out an Unconditional Basic Income. For 3&4 year olds we want to see free, full time, high quality early childhood education because that is the best education investment we can make.
What explains the difference in spending here? TOP is proposing means testing half of superannuation for the richest half of superannuitants to fund this. Not only will that make super affordable, it frees up $3b from people that don't need the money, to invest in our young folk that do. Like the other Establishment parties, the Greens have insufficient courage to tackle the injustice of NZ Superannuation. That is what happens when you become a mainstream party.
5. Welfare
Again, both TOP and the Greens want to end poverty, but have taken quite different approaches. The Greens have proposed large increases in benefits, but have stuck with the existing system of trying to target who needs help and who doesn't. The good news is that under the Greens plan, everyone on a benefit will get more money. The bad news is that at some stage you have to take the benefit off people, which creates a disincentive to work.
TOP on the other hand is moving towards our long-term vision of an Unconditional Basic Income (UBI). We have already started with over 65s and young families (as above), but we are also proposing rolling it out to everyone aged 18-23. The advantage of the UBI is that everyone gets it, so nobody falls through the cracks, regardless of what they are doing to pursue their goals, or contribute to society. People have the flexibility to try new things, like starting a business, volunteering, or caring without the concern of losing their benefit. A UBI rewards work because people don't lose their benefit by working. In our view this is the welfare system of the future.
6. Incomes
The Greens want to ramp up the minimum wage as a way to boost incomes. TOP wants to increase the minimum wage too, but we recognise that it is 67% of the median wage and if you push it too far too fast you'll just cause unemployment. The Treasury estimate is that the Green's policy will put 30,000 people out of a job.
TOP wants higher wages too, recognizing that the approach to immigration of lowly skilled people has been a major dampener on the wages of New Zealanders. We will return immigration to its traditional role – skilled workers that simply are not available in New Zealand. Otherwise, we will reduce immigration for those of lower skills who compete with Kiwi workers, pushing down wages for all.
TOP's tax reform will also see affordable housing (which is the real cause of poverty at the moment) and more investment going into businesses so they can provide better paid jobs.
7. Legalising Cannabis
Both parties want to fully legalise cannabis eventually, although the Greens haven't set out how. TOP has prepared our plan for a fully legal, regulated market. Evidence shows that we can reduce the overall harm caused by cannabis and use the revenue gained from the sale of cannabis to invest in currently underfunded drug treatment programs.
In the short term the Greens have concentrated on legalising cannabis for medicinal purposes. This is popular with the public, but causes some real problems in practice. While there is growing evidence of the medicinal benefits of cannabis, when it has been legalised for medicinal purposes overseas it has spawned a whole industry of doctors willing to service people with the drug (sometimes not for purely medicinal purposes). While we appreciate the direction the Greens want to go in, TOP's view is the best response is still to legalise fully. If we do head down this path then we need to listen closely to doctors to ensure they aren't being turned into drug dealers.
8. Odds & Sods – other policy areas
There are plenty of other policy differences, but it isn't always clear what the Greens policy is, so it can be difficult to tell. On things like Health and Education the Greens generally take Labour's approach of spending more money. TOP recognises that we are a small party and so we propose policies that are self-funding and focused on making the system work better. For example in health, we are focused on prevention, and for education we are focused on reducing pointless testing and administration.
Both parties are committed to honouring the Treaty, but only TOP want to embed it in a written Constitution, with protection from a Constitutional Authority (such as an Upper House).
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Over the past decade, digital media has transformed how we take pictures, how existing images circulate in the world and how histories are written. While many artists have questioned where to locate images in our contemporary context, their ongoing presence in museums and galleries underscores that—alongside more dematerialized forms—images remain with us physically.
Surface Tension presents recent works by Canadian and international artists that readily engage with this persistent materiality. In particular, the works here share an interest in the surface of the image and its susceptibility to intervention. From the rough texture of newsprint to the semi-gloss of a snapshot to the sheen of advertising vinyl, it is surface that establishes our encounter with every image. When that surface is unsettled—as happens to the works on view in this exhibition—new relations between images and objects emerge.
Moving beyond the traditional framework of photography, the meanings of the works in Surface Tension are not limited to the subjects of individual pictures. Instead, meaning is made through strategies of assemblage, with images expanded, illuminated or even undone as they assume material form.
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Matthew Buckingham, Nina Canell & Robin Watkins, Youngmi Chun, Kelly Jazvac, Sreshta Rit Premnath, Jimmy Robert, Mark Soo


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I feel oddly jealous of both of my sons, due to their ages, all in front of them that's already behind me, choices, excitement, learning, the rushes of Being Young! If I could somehow really communicate to them how much I want them to BE IN THESE MOMENTS -- because suddenly I blinked, and I'm almost 50, and it starts to feel like all the doors are either familiar or closed, or I already went through them, and it's so HARD, ever, to be surprised or thrilled in those ways specific to their ages. But I didn't know it until I was already beyond it & none of that can happen for or to me again, not that way, where everything feels like a FIRST still, and not a recurrence that my mind, without asking, runs through all its experience filters & dilutes, categorizes, analyzes, shifts, hones, until it's just another piece of information that I file in my mental library, like a footnote to the Big Main Event that already happened years ago.
A photo I saw today, a movie still of Javier Bardem and an actress in the throes of unbridled hubba-hubba? Recalled for me the depth of my old impetuousness, the once-upon-a-time imperviousness to consequence; it was NOW-THIS-SECOND that held all my attention -- & I don't mean just in relation to unbridled hubba-hubba -- I'm talking unbridled life. I do hate that I'll never 'have' Javier Bardem. I hate more that all those blasts of firsts are mainly over for me. I hate that I have a mental library because sometimes I don't want the extra awareness or checks or balances; I simply want FEELING!
My male children are there where urgency & immediacy are the crossroads under their feet, and no one can conceive of the words to tell them it all may turn out differently than what now is showing them, than what they 'know' in their beginning place. I want them to be ravenous, insatiable, TO TAKE BIG BITES, like wolves, to digest it all in raw juicy chunks & not think about regurgitation, examination, until later.
But the Mom in me? Eesh. She frets, she wants to pave the way, steer, point everything out, direct, warn, protect, counsel, caution, advise. All of that is a distraction from their journey. They have mistakes to make, their own stones to roll, their own doors to open and/or close. I can't do it for them. Or, really, with them. I have to recede, watch in anxious silence, unless they're threatening themselves with stupidity. I have to balance where I am and what I know with distance from where they are and what they are learning, are meant to learn. My lessons suited me. They have other lessons to learn. I can guess at some, knowing them as I do. I can listen, I can stay at the ready for when they seek & ask, want to talk, want to deliberate, evaluate. I'm not less but differently needed.
My life, lived as a woman, puts me already at a remove from them; but it also makes me a Pandora's Box of ideas & insights when it comes to the women who enter their lives. They've both already tapped into my willingness to talk about any subject, bluntly, openly, to say what I feel but to allow them to have their own sensations & responses, and to draw different conclusions. They both know, I think, that I want them to be who THEY are, not who I am. Or was. They are my sons for the rest of my life. They are themselves for the rest of theirs, and being my sons is only one aspect of those selves. ACCEPT. ACCEPT. Give what I have an abundance of: LOVE! Say it, say I'm proud, say I'm excited, happy, confused, concerned, whatever is appropriate and real to what they're doing as separate individuals. And take the hits when they begin to analyze me as a parent. Say, "Yes, I screwed that up" or "Yes, I did a good job there." Own all that, without owning them.
Kevin is 18. EIGHTEEN. David will be 22. These are not children, anymore. But they are MY children, always. I'm learning how to play that, but they give me help. They show or tell me, mostly INdirectly now, but then they're both in the throes of separating themselves from me as a parent, a ruling entity, an influence. They have to dismiss me in order to establish their own footing. I have to let myself be dismissed gracefully & graciously, without allowing them to put me in absentia. I AIN'T gonna go away.
Friday, April 10, 2009
Time is False
I feel oddly jealous of both of my sons, due to their ages, all in front of them that's already behind me, choices, excitement, learning, the rushes of Being Young! If I could somehow really communicate to them how much I want them to BE IN THESE MOMENTS -- because suddenly I blinked, and I'm almost 50, and it starts to feel like all the doors are either familiar or closed, or I already went through them, and it's so HARD, ever, to be surprised or thrilled in those ways specific to their ages. But I didn't know it until I was already beyond it & none of that can happen for or to me again, not that way, where everything feels like a FIRST still, and not a recurrence that my mind, without asking, runs through all its experience filters & dilutes, categorizes, analyzes, shifts, hones, until it's just another piece of information that I file in my mental library, like a footnote to the Big Main Event that already happened years ago.
Posted by Toni at 5:32 AM
Labels: April 2009, Journal Entry
12 comments:
- Holly said...
Anything that rests deeply in the heart never goes away. Ever. And, while we change as we grow, and how we may view our relationship to anything and anyone, what is true and valuable remains so. Toni, this is some beautiful sharing you did here today. I'm honored to have read it.
- April 10, 2009 at 6:44 AM
- beth said...
THIS WAS BEAUTIFUL AND FABULOUS AND FUNNY AND FROM THE HEART....and in case I haven't told you lately, I heart YOU!!!
I'm right there with you sweetie...100% on all that....especially the "I ain't going anywhere" ....I think since our children are the same age, or close enough, we so often feel the same way !!!
and ummmm, I won't even go there in this space in regards to javier...and I am GETTING that movie no matter what !!!
- April 10, 2009 at 6:49 AM
- Eternally Free Spirit said...
Hmm I'm 26 and can't figure out how to get my mom to let go a little. She is still a bit overbearing and doesn't want to let me make my own mistakes even though that's the best way for me to learn. Tips?
I know she just wants to protect me, I know she loves me, and I thank her and respect her for all that but...I want to be able to live my own life. When I was a teenager (pick any age of teen) she tried to control who my friends were and what I wore. I never did anything promiscuous or drug related and never would have. But...now we've run into a problem.
I don't feel comfortable talking to her about several things and...we no longer practice the same religion. We haven't for years. But instead of just letting me be happy she's making me miserable by shoving hers down my throat every chance she gets (esp now with Easter being Sunday). Got any tips for how I can get to just let me live my life?
- April 10, 2009 at 7:25 AM
- Cam@Journey Wildly said...
I pray for the grace and wisdom that you have so beautifully shown here, when it is my time to walk this path.
And, I'm with Beth, I totally heart you too!!
- April 10, 2009 at 9:13 AM
- cinner said...
Toni, this was absolutley beautiful, Do your boys read your blog, I don't have children but can feel for what you are going through and trust me they will always need their mom, and I envy you one day you may have grandchildren and their is nothing like a grandparent. Those are new beginnings. you may think you have to be on the sidelines, I think they will keep you closer than you will know. It is beautiful how your words seem to flow so easily.Not everyone is as lucky as your boys.
- April 10, 2009 at 10:57 AM
- lee said...
I to am willing to talk about anything with my daughter. I feel like you a deep protectiveness and yet want them to grow up and be self sufficent. I love your writing from the heart keep it up
- April 11, 2009 at 8:29 AM
- b-luv said...
i just STUMBLED onto your blog and i am ever so thankful! wow what great posts!!!
- April 11, 2009 at 9:08 AM
- C.M. Jackson said...
I so understand--where did it all go and why is it so difficult? I don't have children, but imagine that it initially adds to the ennui as one thinks about time and age.. Somehow, you will find your space and place and continue living as you always have. As for myself, while I wish for the time afforded youth, I don't necessarily want to go through my 20's or 30's again;-)
Keep on keeping on--go for it!
- April 11, 2009 at 3:57 PM
- soulbrush said...
gosh i do feel for you, I have been through this completely. my 2 sons are 33 soon and 38 soon and still they are my 'boys'. i remember very clearly what it was like when they 'separated' from me. and all i could do was be there for them... and go nowhere myself...but i did find this very upsetting in some ways, as my previous twenty years just seemed to amount to nothing!!!!but we are great friends and they love me and always ring me even if they are too busy to see me. also having my granddaughter has brought us all closer again. hugs for you friend.
- April 12, 2009 at 4:08 AM
- Carla said...
Wonderful insights, and so true! Just this morning, 5yods asked me if the peeping stuffed chick that came in his basket had batteries, and whether he should save the batteries by not making it peep all the time. I told him to make it peep as much as he wanted and not to worry about the batteries. Don't save it, use it all up, I said. I wondered as I was telling him this if it was really the prudent thing to tell a 5yo. But I don't care. I don't want him to save the peeps for tomorrow or another day. I want him to enjoy the peeps RIGHT NOW!
- April 12, 2009 at 6:39 AM
- Pamela McCarville said...
How beautiful.
First: I want you for my Mom!!!!
Second: How does that happen, you turn around and suddenly there's 50 in the future rushing up. And yet, I don't feel 50, but then what does 50 really feel like?
You have very lucky children.
- April 12, 2009 at 8:53 AM
- Kathy said...
Oh Toni! So compelling. So bittersweet. You are a magical writer! Thank you for your honesty. Thank you making yourself vulnerable! What you wrote was a gift! A powerful gift! Thank you!
- April 12, 2009 at 6:23 PM


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You can model free liquid surfaces that do not undergo topology changes using moving mesh functionality in the COMSOL® software. Here's a thorough guide on how to do so.Read More
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A common joke is that fusion energy is 30 years away, and always will be. Researchers are using simulation to tackle the challenges involved with of inertial fusion energy target production.Read More
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A novel oscillatory microfluidic junction design, called a "batwing", is improving the field of droplet microfluidics by consistently producing uniform and complex double-emulsion droplets.Read More
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The viscous catenary problem is theoretically and experimentally significant in many industries due to the complex phenomena it entails. Simulation can help us understand this problem.Read More
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In any form of treatment, it is always desirable to minimize the level of discomfort that the treatment process causes patients, while ensuring overall safety and effectiveness. For diabetes patients, insulin injections remain an important form of treatment, but the process itself can be painful. With the help of multiphysics simulation, a team of researchers from the University of Ontario Institute of Technology sought to develop a MEMS-based micropump that could administer insulin injections in a safe and painless way.Read More
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When you think of a stout beer, one type that may come to mind is Guinness® beer. This stout is very special, noticeable by its dark body and famous white head. The dynamics of the foam alone are interesting enough to write a series of blog posts about. Although I don't drink Guinness® beer (I'm a fan of IPA), I found the longstanding debate about whether its bubbles are rising or sinking while the beer settles makes an interesting simulation.Read More
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I support Edward Snowden for having the courage to share with US citizens, while many of us were aware we did not know the extent of our government officials and private corporations involved in a total disregard for our privacy. All the propaganda and accusation against Snowden is not enough to label him as a traitor. The Truth will prevail no mater the corrupt system we live under.
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Investigators believe Snowden, who was working in Hawaii for an NSA contractor, was partly successful at covering his tracks as he accessed a broad array of information about operations conducted by NSA and its British equivalent, Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ), according to the sources, who declined to be identified.
In a weekend television appearance, the chairwoman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, Senator Dianne Feinstein, said she had been informed by U.S. officials that Snowden possessed around 200 secret documents.
But one non-government source familiar with Snowden's materials said that Feinstein grossly understated the size of Snowden's document haul and that he left for Hong Kong with thousands of documents copied from the NSA files.
Two U.S. national security sources that were among the people Reuters spoke to confirmed that investigators believe Snowden possesses a substantial amount of secret material, though they declined to discuss numbers.
So far, the Guardian and the Washington Post have not published all the details of the documents that Snowden gave them.
Assange and Wikileaks in the past have taken a different approach in releasing tens of thousands of reports about U.S. military operations in Afghanistan and Iraq, as well as 250,000 State Department cables.
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Ron Throop "Henry Miller Went To Paris in 1932" 2016. Acrylic on canvas, 18′ x 14″
I first noticed the works of painter Ron Throop on the Facebook page for Stuckism: The Ant-Anti Art Movement. There's always lots of fascinating works getting posted there, but his stood out to me for several reasons.
Stuckism is truly an international phenomenon, but here was another United States artist, from Oswego, New York, puzzling his way through the dynamics of the independent art scene. He was very productive, constantly putting up images of new paintings. When I see someone so dedicated it sparks my interest; it resonates with my own compulsive approach. I always say painting is my healthiest obsession, so to see someone else with that drive gives a sense of camaraderie.
Even more intriguing were the painting themselves, spontaneous, boldly colored, freely rendered, and full of stream of consciousness musings and humorous asides. As Ron and I began to communicate I was not surprised to discover he was also a fan of author and painter Henry Miller. They tap into the same kind of liveliness, cheerfulness and velocity in their work.
Ron Throop "Is the Squirrel My Spirit Animal, or Am I Just Hyper-paranoid?" 2015
Acrylic on canvas, 14″ x 11″
I invited Ron to take part in Spineless: The Invertebrate Art Show, an exhibit I curated in Phoenix, Arizona. He sent a couple of pieces that made a big impact. During the opening, I witnessed one visitor experience a revelation. This shy young girl could not stop speaking about how blown away she was by the show, the energy in the pieces, how the colors just popped. When we asked her to pose next to her favorite work she chose one of Ron's.
Inspired by Throop
I would not be surprised if a new artist was created right there on the spot. Her eyes had been opened to the possibilities of painting.
Recently I learned of an exciting new development in Ron Throop's career. Using the global connections of Stuckism and the power of contemporary communications technology, he started a project with a group of Russian Stuckist painters. He is tracking their interactions in his new blog, Round Trip Stuckism.
Ron Throop "Which China Snowflake Is Wrong?" 2015. Acrylic on canvas, 24″ x 18″
Ron Throop took some time to answer a few questions about art, life and collaboration. He also shared some wonderful images from his Russian painting partners.
How did you initially get involved in the visual arts? Who were some of your inspirations?
Ron Throop: As a younger man and aspiring writer, I often dabbled with paint at the suggestion of Henry Miller. He would suffer writing, its joys and frustrations, to a cracking point, and then he would gather his watercolors, paper, and brushes, and go on a painting jag for however long it took to feel like writing again.
So I did this too, as practice. Over time I realized that painting is so much more joyous than writing. It allows for tremendous variation, can be spiritual, silly, expressive like fireworks—and still play the music loud. The viewer decides her own feeling (or not) without needing the imagination hand held and maneuvered by the writer.
Miller also introduced me to the picture poems of Kenneth Patchen. I copied his style to flow text in my paintings. I still do.
I raised my girls, tutored them myself, up until their teen years, when they enrolled in school. I cooked in restaurants to make ends meet. My children came first, always, so my lust for expression (which is terribly strong), always sat on the back burner until it boiled over. In my 30's I began to nurture it into a regular regimen. Found a feel so to speak, and haven't looked back.
How did you discover the Stuckist movement?
RT: My good friend who is the most enthusiastic educator of visual art I know sent me a video one day of a Stuckist show in London, which led me to the Stuckist manifesto.
What makes an artist a Stuckist?
RT: I don't know if I am one entirely. I would tell someone who paints regularly to read the manifesto. Does he/she agree with most of its precepts? I do. I paint recognizable figures mostly, but am open for change. I think my limitations keep me where I am, which is good for now. Still, I believe the word "whim" should be printed above any creative door.
I like this from the manifesto:
"The Stuckist paints pictures because painting pictures is what matters."
"The ego-artist's constant striving for public recognition results in a constant fear of failure. The Stuckist risks failure wilfully and mindfully by daring to transmute his/her ideas through the realms of painting. Whereas the ego-artist's fear of failure inevitably brings about an underlying self-loathing, the failures that the Stuckist encounters engage him/her in a deepening process which leads to the understanding of the futility of all striving. The Stuckist doesn't strive — which is to avoid who and where you are — the Stuckist engages with the moment."
And my favorite:
The Stuckist is not mesmerised by the glittering prizes, but is wholeheartedly engaged in the process of painting. Success to the Stuckist is to get out of bed in the morning and paint.
And I do. Until I drop dead.
Ron Throop "Like de Kooning, I Set Out To Make Something Very Ugly With Lots of Paint. Unlike de Kooning, It Took Me Only a Few Hours" 2015. Acrylic on birch board, 24″ x 24″
Tell us about some of the art events you've created locally.
RT: This upcoming project is the first group organizational effort I will sign my name to. I open up my house twice a year to show my own work. I have had some luck getting admitted in galleries, both group and solo shows, but truly I prefer the home show over all the rest. A bar would be okay. I like cheerful noise. I like being a happy host. Galleries are just rooms. The social psychologists have been telling us all along that it is others who authenticate achievement—rarely oneself, the achiever. I like to think I am crazy enough to love what I do, and what I have become as a man cut up into many roles. If some gallery wishes to invest in me, wonderful! I also like money, no matter how never easy come, always easy go it is for my family.
You've launched an international collaboration with a group of Russian Stuckist painters. How did this come about?
RT: This is about reverence first and foremost. I met Alexey Stepanov through the Stuckist Facebook page. I messaged him to ask if he would be willing to sell me one of his beautiful paintings. He suggested we trade instead. Voila! A painter-to-painter relationship was born. (See Ron's post on the topic: When a Stuckist Trades, Does a Tree Fall in the Woods?)
Alexey Stepanov "FPS Russia in St. Petersburg and Leningrad. Execution of Sentences. Wednesday / Cloudy evening " 2016
From that day on I became very interested in his work, and discovered through social media (mainly Facebook and VK) that Alexey did not do all his work in a frown-bubble like I did. He hosted figurative painting sessions in his studio, and went out plein-airing Moscow architecture, people and nature. The Russian Stuckists had shows, friendly auctions, painting parties, what have you. I "friended" several of Alexey's friends (painters too) on social media, and continued to cheer on their works and exhibitions from my lonely writing desk of woe.
Then they had a show in the woods, and posted pictures of paintings hanging on trees. I was smitten! Kindred spirits at last! Over the past few years I too had taken my paintings to the woods and hung them on trees. This was the culture I had longed for all my life! Non-existent in my town and country. In the U.S., avarice seems unavoidable in the arts. Avarice, and even a creeping arrogance. And among artists! A gargantuan oxymoron. (Ron's post: Homage to Painters Alive Who Understand What I'm Getting At)
So, I kept finding myself wanting to travel to Moscow to paint with Alexey and friends. I came up with the idea to ask The Russian Stuckists if I could sit in on some of their sessions through Skype.
I applied for a New York State Decentralization Grant as an individual artist, and got it. A modest award of $2,500. Giving myself an imaginary minimum wage, by project's end, I estimate I will have "spent" in lost wages, over $40,000, maybe more. All artists understand this labor of love, at least in some point in their lives.
I informed Alexey and friends the day after I received the award. By week's end I was nervously participating in my first international live painting session.
Lena Ulanova "Girlfriends" 2016
How are you working together? What are your goals for this project?
RT: I would like to paint with The Russian Stuckists via Skype possibly 10 times by August. Meanwhile as painters we keep painting, individually, in groups—any way we can, while I keep to my promotion. In no time we will amass 50+ precious works to exhibit. I will have their chosen pieces shipped to the United States, and hang our work for public show. There will be movies, photos, written accounts, a showbook, artist talk and education on Stuckism. I will do extensive outreach to fill up the place. I will also apply their work to established galleries (whether the galleries like it or not). I wish to promote Stuckism of course, but I am mostly intrigued by the work of these painters. Still, if it wasn't for Stuckism, I never would have met Alexey and friends, and I would continue to rot in that frown bubble I spoke of.
Alena Levina"Cassandra" 2016 Oil on cardboard, 25 x 30 cm
Andrew Makarov "All the Colors In the Field. The Ministry of Defense"
Peter Generlov "Bridge" 2015
What is happening in your own art now?
RT: After the first Skype session, I realized how much I need to improve. I persuaded a master to let me audit his figurative drawing course at the local college. This is a huge leap for me. I have always been a confident and joyous painter. Last week, after attempting to paint a model on demand, I got smacked upside the head with a blast of overwhelming confusion. Already this grant has proven its potential. It made an old dog seek a new trick. (Ron's post on the collaboration in Round Trip Stuckism: Nero Lyred While Rome Burned But Was He Any Good And Did He Know?)
Why does art matter in the 21st century?
RT: Not everyone is born to be a dentist or a plumber. Rather than a blank slate, I think that all of us moderns are born misfits seeking communion. Unfortunately in our time, the dentists and plumbers can always find a pal to drink with. Not so with painters. Yet we abide, desperately at times. I guess the more art that gets made, the more communion artists will share with one another. Working with and admiring the work of the Russian Stuckists has already improved my life significantly. I feel I can arrive in Moscow wearing my Walt Whitman hat, push my hands down into my pockets, and head over to Alexey's flat to gesture draw and share a round.
Painters need to know painters. Social media is a good introduction, but something more must jump from that, or else all acquaintance turns stale.
Stuckism is the most modern, human painting movement on earth right now. Nothing else comes close.
Ron Throop "The Mysteries of Norway" 2015 Acrylic on canvas board, 20 x 16"


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Moscow mule
A Moscow mule is a cocktail made with vodka, spicy ginger beer, and lime juice, garnished with a slice or wedge of lime. It is a type of buck and therefore sometimes known as a vodka buck.
|IBA official cocktail
Moscow mule as served at Rye, San Francisco, California, United States
|Mixed drink
|Primary alcohol by volume
|On the rocks; poured over ice
|Standard garnish
|Lime slice
|Standard drinkware
|copper mug
|IBA specified
|Combine vodka and ginger beer in a highball glass filled with ice. Add lime juice. Stir gently. Garnish.
|Moscow mule recipe at International Bartenders Association
The Moscow mule is popularly served in a copper mug, which takes on the cold temperature of the liquid. Some public health advisories recommended the mugs be plated with nickel or stainless steel on the inside and the lip, but it has been disputed whether the time and acidity involved in the drinking of a Moscow mule would be enough to leach out the 30 milligrams of copper per liter needed to cause copper toxicity.[1]
Variations use different liquors, with the name changed appropriately; for example, if bourbon is used instead of vodka, the drink is commonly called a Kentucky mule or horsefeather (or, if coffee liqueur is added as well, a New Orleans mule). Likewise, if gin is used, it is a gin-gin mule; if tequila is used, it is a Mexican mule; if spiced rum is used, it is a Jamaican mule; if Bundaberg Rum is used, it is an Aussie mule; if Irish whiskey is used, it is an Irish mule; if blended Scotch whisky and St-Germain liqueur are used, it is a Glasgow mule; if absinthe is used, it is a Bohemian mule (or, if cinnamon schnapps are added as well, a dead man's mule); if cognac and Angostura bitters are used, it is a French mule; if pear liqueur and Poire Williams are used, it is a prickly pear mule; if Southern Comfort liqueur is used, it is a Southern mule; and if Tuaca liqueur is used, it is a Tuscan mule.[2]
Another variation is to use ginger syrup instead of ginger beer.[3]
George Sinclair's 2007 article on the origin of the drink quotes the New York Herald Tribune from 1948:
The mule was born in Manhattan but "stalled" on the West Coast for the duration. The birthplace of "Little Moscow" was in New York's Chatham Hotel. That was back in 1941 when the first carload of Jack Morgan's Cock 'n' Bull ginger beer was railing over the plains to give New Yorkers a happy surprise… The Violette Family helped. Three friends were in the Chatham bar, one John A. Morgan, known as Jack, president of Cock 'n' Bull Products and owner of the Hollywood Cock 'n' Bull Restaurant; one was John G. Martin, president of G.F. Heublein Brothers Inc. of Hartford, Conn., and the third was Rudolph Kunett, president of the Pierre Smirnoff, Heublein's vodka division. As Jack Morgan tells it, "We three were quaffing a slug, nibbling an hors d'oeuvre and shoving toward inventive genius". Martin and Kunett had their minds on their vodka and wondered what would happen if a two-ounce shot joined with Morgan's ginger beer and the squeeze of a lemon. Ice was ordered, lemons procured, mugs ushered in and the concoction put together. Cups were raised, the men counted five and down went the first taste. It was good. It lifted the spirit to adventure. Four or five days later the mixture was christened the Moscow mule...[4]
This story was well known for years, however in 2007 a new version of the invention of the Moscow mule cocktail was published. In this version the cocktail's inventor was Wes Price, Morgan's head bartender and the drink was born out of a need to clear the bar's cellar that was packed with unsaleable goods such as Smirnoff Vodka and ginger beer.
Eric Felten quotes Wes Price in an article that was published in 2007 in The Wall Street Journal
"I just wanted to clean out the basement," Price would say of creating the Moscow mule. "I was trying to get rid of a lot of dead stock." The first one he mixed he served to the actor Broderick Crawford. "It caught on like wildfire," Price bragged."[5]
The Moscow mule is often served in a copper mug. The popularity of this drinking vessel is attributable to Martin, who went around the United States to sell Smirnoff vodka and popularize the Moscow mule. Martin asked bartenders to pose with a specialty copper mug and a bottle of Smirnoff vodka, and took Polaroid photographs of them. He took two photos, leaving one with the bartender for display. The other photo was put into a collection and used as proof to the next bar Martin visited of the popularity of the Moscow mule.[6] The copper mug remains, to this day, a popular serving vessel for the Moscow mule.
According to a 1942 Insider Hollywood article, the Moscow mule was most popular in Los Angeles, where it originated.[7] The Nevada State Journal (12 October 1943) reinforced the mule's popularity in reporting: "Already the mule is climbing up into the exclusive handful of most-popular mixed drinks". It became known as a favorite drink of Reno casino owner William F. Harrah. In his book Beat the Dealer (1964), Edward O. Thorp did not name the Tahoe casino where he thought he had been poorly treated as a card counter. Instead, he wrote, "Immediately I had a Moscow mule", subtly hinting that the location was Harrah's Lake Tahoe, due to Harrah's then well-known proclivity for the drink.[8]
Copper vessel platingEdit
The ingredients in Moscow mule cocktails are acidic, and the resulting beverage has a pH well below 6.0. This creates a problem when using traditional copper mugs, as copper can start dissolving into acidic solutions. Copper in solution is considered toxic at concentrations above 1 mg/L.
On 28 July 2017, the Iowa Alcoholic Beverages Division issued a statement that pure copper vessels should not be used to serve acidic drinks, but that "copper mugs lined on the interior with another metal, such as nickel or stainless steel, are allowed to be used and are widely available".[9] The U.S. Food and Drug Administration 2013 Food Code states that copper and copper alloys such as brass "may not be used in contact with a food that has a pH below 6 such as vinegar, fruit juice, or wine or for a fitting or tubing installed between a backflow prevention device and a carbonator."[10][11]
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration's Model Food Code specifically prohibits copper from "coming into direct contact with foods that have a pH below 6.0." The advisory relates only to solid copper mugs. Copper mugs that are lined with stainless steel or other food-safe materials are exempt from the advisory.[12]
See alsoEdit
- ^ Thomson, Julie R. (11 August 2017). "Chemist Debunks That Nasty Rumor About Moscow Mule Mugs Being Poisonous". HuffPost.
- ^ Difford, Simon. "Moscow Mule". Difford's Guide.
- ^ Graham, Colleen (24 May 2019). "Stoli Alibi: A Soda Drink Where Vodka and Ginger Meet". The Spruce Eats.
- ^ Sinclair, George (January 2007). "Moscow Mule". Thinking Bartender. Archived from the original on 14 March 2007. Retrieved 25 October 2014.
- ^ Felten, Eric (2007-06-09). "A Cock(tail) 'n' Bull Story". Wall Street Journal. ISSN 0099-9660. Retrieved 2016-10-29.
- ^ "What's the Story Behind the Moscow Mule and that Copper Mug?". Paykoc Imports. Retrieved 25 April 2015.
- ^ Gwynn, Eith (27 December 1942). Insider Hollywood.
There is a new drink that is a craze in the movie colony now. It is called 'Moscow Mule'.Missing or empty
- ^ Edward O. Thorp. Beat The Dealer: A Winning Strategy For The Game Of Twenty One (New York: Vintage Books, 1966), 68.
- ^ State of Iowa Alcoholic Beverages Division (July 28, 2017). "Use of Copper Mugs in the Serving of Alcoholic Beverages" (PDF).
- ^ Food and Drug Administration (2013). "Food Code" (PDF).
- ^ Oliver, David (8 Aug 2017). "Health Buzz: Why You Should Stop Drinking Moscow Mules Out of Copper Mugs". US News. Retrieved 9 August 2017.
- ^ Wang, Amy (8 Aug 2017). "Heads up, Moscow mule lovers: That copper mug could be poisoning you". Washington Post. Retrieved 9 August 2017.
External linksEdit
|Wikimedia Commons has media related to Moscow mule.
- Grimes, William (2001). Straight Up or On the Rocks: The Story of the American Cocktail. New York: North Point Press. ISBN 978-0-86547-601-1.


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